- Graduate
- Undergraduate
- Research
- News & events
- About us
- Student Commons
- Contact us
- Somers Research Group
- Faculty and Staff Resources
- Next Steps
- Incoming Students
- Spring 2020 Convocation
- The Roundtable
- Conversion Therapy Survey
- Fall 2020 Convocation
- RESET Team
- Spring 2021 Convocation
- Planetary Health Research Group
John O'Neil
Professor
John O'Neil
Professor
- joneil@sfu.ca
- 1 778 782-5317
- HC 113
Areas of interest
Global health, Indigenous health systems, Southeast Asia, implementation and community-based health system research
Education
- BA, University of Saskatchewan
- MA, University of Saskatchewan
- PhD Medical Anthropology, University of California, San Francisco/Berkeley
- Fellow, Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
Biography
Dr. John O’Neil is a Professor of Global and Indigenous Health. From 2007 to 2017 he was Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at SFU. Previously he was Director of the Manitoba First Nations Centre for Aboriginal Health Research (now Ongomiizwin) and Professor and Head of the Department of Community Health Sciences in the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Medicine. He completed his PhD in medical anthropology in 1983 at the University of California (San Francisco/Berkeley).
Research interests
Dr. O’Neil’s work has been primarily to support Indigenous health. He has published more than 150 papers and reports on a variety of Indigenous health issues, including self-government and health system development, cultural understandings of environmental health risks, and social determinants of health disparities. Dr. O’Neil’s work in this area was recognized by his appointment as a CIHR Senior Investigator (2000-2005) and as the founding Chair of the Advisory Board for the Institute for Indigenous People's Health at the Canadian Institutes for Health Research from 2000 to 2006. He also served as the research advisor to the health policy team for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples in 1995/96 and he was a founding member of the Advisory Board of the National Collaborating Centre on Indigenous Health at the Public Health Agency of Canada. He has worked as well on global Indigenous health issues in southeast Asia, circumpolar regions, Australia and Latin America. He currently leads research projects in Vietnam and Thailand on improving access to MCNH services for Indigenous women in remote areas, prevention and treatment of depression through the implementation of community-based services, and supporting Indigenous communities globally to revitalize and protect Indigenous knowledge of land-based healing.
Teaching interests
Dr. O’Neil has advised more than 60 graduate students at the Master’s, Doctoral and post-doctoral levels. His teaching interests are in the area of critical public health, global Indigenous health development, and participatory approaches to health research.
Courses
Fall 2023
Future courses may be subject to change.
Publications and activities
View Dr. John O'Neil's publications here.
T I L